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Carey I havent tackled any of his works yet as i'm still green on the piano, 5 months. clair de lune is about as hard as i can handle at the moment. also ive never had lessons, 1st movement of moonlight was the first piece i taught myself.

Sounds like you a doing quite well with only 5 months of experience. However, I would strongly encourage you to find a good teacher - otherwise you risk developing some bad habits that might impede your progress. The Opus 25 No. 12 will most likely be out of your reach for a few more years - but that doesn't mean you can't thoroughly enjoy hearing and watching others play it. You might want to tackle Chopin's Prelude Opus 28 No. 20. Its a short but impressive sounding piece - in the same key as the Ocean Etude - and lots of fun to play !!

You are correct in saying that all his etudes are hard. Out of the 25 from Op. 10 and 25, it's not the hardest, but it's pretty tiring and easy to get tense as you go along (I play it).

There are plenty of other wonderful works you should study before tackling a Chopin Etude. I went 11 years before I learned one (and I've been playing for just over 11 years, so that means that I'm very new to trying them).

Chopin etude op.25 no.12 is easy to learn, to memorize text, its very simple but to play it in fast tempo and clean... thats whats difficult. I learn it in 2 weeks, memorized, but i practiced it like three month to be clean. Its not that complicated. I opened topic on op.10 no.2, go read it. Think that here are many pianist that say to them selfs no way men its Chopins etude its hard... Well not all Chopins etudes are that hard. Maybe op.10 no.4, no.8 are hard, but black keys, ocean, and lot of more are EASY!!! Easy for me though...

Chopin etude op.25 no.12 is easy to learn, to memorize text, its very simple but to play it in fast tempo and clean... thats whats difficult. I learn it in 2 weeks, memorized, but i practiced it like three month to be clean. Its not that complicated. I opened topic on op.10 no.2, go read it. Think that here are many pianist that say to them selfs no way men its Chopins etude its hard... Well not all Chopins etudes are that hard. Maybe op.10 no.4, no.8 are hard, but black keys, ocean, and lot of more are EASY!!! Easy for me though...

That's all well and good - but how long have you been playing the piano? The OP is self taught and has only been playing for 5 months.

Carey i didnt know how long he plays piano. I play piano for ten years.

If you had read the rest of the thread before posting your suggestion that some Chopin Etudes are "easy," then you would realize that making that suggestion to someone who has been playing for five months is somewhat ludicrous.

There is another thread on the Chopin Op 10 No 2 Etude. I suggest you read it.

Yes, Op 10 No 2 is too hard for you; many concert pianists with years of study and performance avoid it because it is too demanding of certain aspects of technique.

Don't be misled by the relative simplicity of the look of the notes on the page!

One of the difficulties facing self-taught beginners is that they don't know what they don't know: they don't know what might be difficult, and they often can't judge relative degrees of difficulties among pieces. There have been examples of self-taught players on this forum presenting recordings of works that they didn't know before "learning" them, with which they didn't compare their interpretation of the work with that of professionals, with the result that their performance in no way came even close to approximating a "reasonable" peformance of the work.

There is a lot to learn, but tackling Chopin Etudes after a couple of months of self-study is not a recommended program.

The ability to judge what is appropriate to learn and to play, given ones own abilities, comes with experience and/or through good teaching.

The best you can do if you won't seek out a good teacher is to buy collections of piano pieces that are graded or published for a particular level of development of technique and playing.